Description

Over the past six or more decades, John Friedmann has been an insurgent force in the field of urban and regional planning, transforming it from its traditional state-centered concern for establishing social and spatial order into a radical domain of collaborative action between state and civil society for creating ‘the good society’ in the present and future. By opening it up to theoretical engagement with a wide range of disciplines, Friedmann’s contributions have revolutionised planning as a transdisciplinary space of critical thinking, social learning, and reflective practice.

Insurgencies and Revolutions brings together former students, close research associates, and colleagues of John Friedmann to reflect on his contributions to planning theory and practice. The volume is organized around five broad themes where Friedmann’s contributions have risen to challenge established paradigms and generated the space for revolutionary thinking and action in urban and regional planning – Theorising hope; Economic development and regionalism; World cities and the Good city; Social learning, empowered communities, and citizenship; and Chinese cities. The essays by the authors reflect their engagement with his ideas and the new directions in which they have taken these in their work in planning theory and practice.

Table of Contents

Preface

Leonie Sandercock

Introduction to the Volume

Haripriya Rangan

Theme 1: Practising Hope

Theme introduction

Libby Porter

"Resistance is never wasted": Reflections on Friedmann and hope

Libby Porter

Territoriality: Which way now?

Bishwapriya Sanyal

The difficulties of employing utopian thinking in planning practice: Lessons from the Just Jerusalem Project

Diane E. Davis

Realizing sustainable development goals: The prescience of John Friedmann

Shiv Someshwar

How to prepare planners in the Bologna European education context: Adapting Friedmann’s planning theories to practical pedagogy

Adolfo Cazorla, Ignacio de los Ríos, José M. Díaz-Puente

Theme 2: Economic Development and Regionalism

Theme introduction

Haripriya Rangan

City-regions, urban fields, and urban frontiers: Friedmann’s legacy

Robin Bloch

Periphery, borders and regional development

Chung-Tong Wu

The bioregionalization of survival: Sustainability science and rooted community

Keith Pezzoli

Are social enterprises a radical planning challenge to neoliberal economic development?

Haripriya Rangan

Business in the public domain: The rise of social enterprises and implications for economic development planning

Yuko Aoyama

Theme 3: World Cities and the Good City: Contradictions and Possibilities

Theme introduction

Haripriya Rangan

The urban, the periurban and the urban superorganism

Michael Leaf

The prospect of suburbs: Rethinking the urban field on a planet of cities

Roger Keil

Room for the Good Society? Public space, amenities and the condominium

About the Editors

Haripriya Rangan works for the Australia India Institute, and is affiliated with the School of Geography, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Trained as an architect and planner, she studied with John Friedmann at UCLA, and has pursued a research and teaching career in geography in India, USA, Australia and South Africa.

Mee Kam Ng is Vice-Chairman of the Department of Geography and Resource Management, Director of the Urban Studies Programme and Associate Director of the Institute of Future Cities at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a member of RTPI, a fellow of HKIP and academic advisor of HKIUD.

Jacquelyn Chase is a professor in the Geography and Planning Department at California State University, Chico. She has published articles on urbanization of agricultural regions, rural labor markets, gender, and fertility in Brazil and on county planning in California. She is the editor of the volume Spaces of Neoliberalism (Kumarian).

Libby Porter is a scholar in planning and urban geography. Her work focuses on the role that planning and urban development play in dispossession and displacement. She is author of Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning (Ashgate 2010) and with Janice Barry of Planning for Coexistence? (Routledge 2016).

About the Series

Published in conjunction with the Royal Town Planning Institute [http://www.rtpi.org.uk/], this series of leading edge texts is intended for academics, educators, students and practitioners in planning and related fields. Written by globally renowned authors the series looks at all aspects of spatial planning theory and practice from a comparative and international perspective.